CHPPR's Project HOMES is expanding the availability of medically assisted recovery residences in Texas

该项目房屋（阿片类药物的住房扩展服务）研究正在与德克萨斯州的当地社区合作伙伴合作运营和评估国家认证，无费用recovery residences for people who used opioids and are taking buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone to recover. Since March 2021, the project has worked with providers to open 14 Medically Assisted Recovery (MAR) residences in 5 Texas cities.

Opioids are the main driver of drug overdose deaths in the United States. MAR is a proven and effective treatment for people who used opioids and people taking medications to recover have a decreased risk of overdose death. Although recovery residences can provide a safe, shared living environment to help transition those in recovery, little is known about the efficacy of MAR-friendly residences.

“Recovery residences are a great resource for individuals in recovery,” saidJohnny M. Wilkerson, PhD，首席研究员On项目. “But most homes want residents to abstain from all substances, so there’s often a stigma towards those using medically assisted recovery. Project HOMES is groundbreaking for integrating MAR and starting to set some best practices for these kinds of residences.”

As the Texas recovery residence industry is still young, the services offered by different providers vary greatly. The国家al Alliance for Recovery Residences (NARR)has set national standards, identifying residences as Level I, II, III, or IV based on the support offered, but these standards are not universally followed. Project HOMES aims to expand the use of these standards by increasing the number of recovery residences meeting the level II or III standards.

14个项目房屋住宅由奥斯汀，埃尔帕索，休斯敦，米德兰和圣安吉洛的5个提供商经营。每个提供商都定制住房服务，以适应其社区的需求，同时仍遵守II级或III级设施的Narr标准。这些住所使用MAR向18+个人开放，从而使项目能够评估MAR友好型住宅的有效性。在准备下一步康复之前，不要求停止获得医生批准的MAR的居民离开住所。

Project HOMES Investigators plan to build on these successes. In addition to opening a new women’s home in Midland, the team has initiatives to aid resident recruitment and retention in existing homes. They are providing outreach and educational materials as well as a Data Dashboard to support the homes with recruitment and are conducting intervention studies within the homes to increase resident retention.

项目房屋被资助Texas Targeted Opioid Response（TTOR）由德克萨斯健康与公共服务委员会(HHSC).Learn more关于他们的项目房屋new website.